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With the blessings of Gurudev, to all dear devotees of Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī: today is Pūrṇimā. Many of you know what Pūrṇimā means. Pūrṇimā means completeness. According to Vedic and Vedāntic astrology, and according to the cycle of the yugas, everything is kept in order astrologically. It means each and every movement in the universe, each and every event, each and every change—the planets, the climate—all occur according to the constellations. If anything happens on our planet, be it an earthquake, a flood, a hurricane, or a drought, its beginning is not only on this planet. The symptoms begin in the universe, and there is an influence of the sun and moon on every planet, not only in our solar system but also in other solar systems—thousands of sun systems, Chaudha Lok, Ikisho Brahman. Holy Gurujī writes in a very beautiful bhajan about this body, especially the human body in which you are sitting now. This body is your temple. This body is your house. This body is your coach, and this body is temporarily given to you to experience the different principles and systems which are in the universe. This body is very special because the entire universe is reflected in it. Yathā Brahmāṇḍe Tathā Piṇḍe. Brahmāṇḍa is the universe. Piṇḍa means this physical body. What exists in the universe exists in this body. What does not exist in this body does not exist in the universe. You are part of the universe, and you yourself are a universe. The mantra, "Om Pūrṇamada Pūrṇamidam," you know this all. The complete, and what comes from the completeness, is also complete. And when you take something out from the complete, the complete still remains. In the local language here in India, we used to say: in the egg of the peacock bird, you need not put color inside. Automatically, the baby which will come out of the peacock egg will itself be colorful. And so is the relation between the universe and our physical body, Gurujī said. Sadambhai Ajabrat hamara, betha barambara. Sadabhai Ajabrat hamara. Oh, my brothers, saints, sādhus—all are sādhus. Ajab rat hamara. This coach is a very wondrous coach. Wonderful. Baitha baaram baara, dekha baaram baara. Many times I sat in this coach, or I saw many times this coach. Das ghoda chale is ratme. Ajab chaal apara. Ten horses are pulling this coach, and these horses have very wonderful movements. Buddhi kī lagām lagāī. Hakat man hosiyārā. The jugal of the intellect and mind is the man who guides the horses—the coachman mind. Thus, Gauda, the ten horses are our ten indriyas: five karma indriyas and five jñāna indriyas. Our ten indriyas need to be controlled. Otherwise, they are wild horses; they will destroy your coach. And in order to control them, we need buddhi, intellect, and mind. Viveka is the cream of your intellect. Viveka will immediately give you the correct judgment—this and that. Afterward, whether you do it or not is your problem. Buddhi also gives judgment, but viveka is like a knife cutting butter, half on this side and half on that side, or cutting bread or cheese. Buddhi bṛṣṭa ho saktī hai, viveka bṛṣṭa nahīṁ hotā. Buddhi can be manipulated, but not viveka. Lakin vivek heen ho sakti hai—you can be devoid of viveka. Rājā ātmā behtā rahtā hai—the king is the ātmā sitting in this coach of the body. Chaudha, Lok, Ikisho, Brahman, Ratme Sakal Pasara. Fourteen worlds and 2,100 universes—the solar systems—are projected in this coach. If you go into samādhi, you can see this; otherwise, nothing. That's the truth. It means you have to meditate, do the Kriyā, and practice yoga in daily life. Abhyāsa, abhyāsa kānte, abhyāsa. O Arjuna, practice, practice, practice. The real practitioner, the real sādhaka, adores their practice as adoration to God. You should have devotion to your sādhanā. Otherwise, you cannot do it. When you do your sādhanā, you are with God. If you lose your interest, you lose your connection to God. You need the motivation. You need the love. When the love is there, everything is beautiful. It is not wrong, but if you lose this, then everything is disturbing. Everything brings imbalance. It is your sādhanā which brings you to God, and it is the sādhanā which is guided by Gurudeva. Mahāprabhujī said in one bhajan: Oh mind, oh my mind, you lost everything with Kuśaṅgis. Kuśaṅgīs are those who have no interest in spirituality, those who have no knowledge. They are disturbed, and they will disturb you too. The gṛhasthas. Kṛṣṇa said if you meet a rākṣasa or an enemy, it is much better than meeting a kuśaṅgī. Kushanga. Kuthan or patan karasta, satsaṅg or kushanga. Jñāna, dhyāna, bhakti, sabkhoī. The knowledge, meditation, and devotion you lost. Chal Rayo Kūḍhaṅg. Now, your behavior is very peculiar. Every time: "Swami Jī, Praṇām Gurudev, O my Lord, my Gurudev, Swami Jī, Praṇām. And then, good morning, Swami Jī, how are you? Okay. Oh my God, what happened?" Kudhang, Chal Rayo Kudhang. Your movement, your behavior is very peculiar. Why? Because you lost three things: jñāna, dhyāna, and bhakti sādhanā. The day will come when you will say, "Oh, my Lord, why didn't I practice?" It will be too late. Three things will not come back: time, the bullet from the weapon, and the soul from the body—unless Mahāprabhujī or Devpurījī brings it back. That's it. These are all very true words from the great saints. So, the 14 worlds and 2,100 different universes, or sun systems, are all reflected in this human body. If you come to the divine consciousness, then this human divine consciousness can reach up to 2,100 different universes. Then you are in Brahman; before, you were not. When you are there, then you will say, "No, it's mine, it's mine. I don't want this. I don't like this." Yes, like and dislike. Who? As long as you are an individual, closed in this case, you have to become universal consciousness—without border, endless. There are so many musics inside the instruments, all the cakras, the bīja mantras of the chakras, the sub-mantras of the chakras. The Sanskrit language, the Hindi language, is one of the most scientific and divine languages. It's not a man-made language. This is called Devanāgarī. Dev means God, and nāgarik means the citizen—the citizen of the divine world. It has been discovered through meditation—the forms which represent the cosmic energy in different forms, each alphabet. So there are the bīja mantras, the seeds and the sub-mantras. And these are all 52 alphabets, and these are all projected in our body. And all this has a vibration. It comes to the Nāḍī Yoga. So that is what leads us to the Pūrṇa. What leads us? The sādhanā. Therefore, today is Pūrṇimā. Pūrṇimā is very significant. It has a message for our planet and for other planets. God Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad-gītā: "Arjuna, I enter into the vegetation in the form of the nectar through the moonlight, through the changes of the moon from the dark moon to the new moon to the full moon and back till the dark." It has a biological process and system that influences this planet, not only in humans but on the entire planet, on all elements. The ocean, when the full moon is there, the whole ocean is in movement. It's not easy to move the ocean, so the ocean is in emotion. So you are in the motion, the motion. And when you are in the motion, then it is emotion. And when you come to the emotion, it moves your whole body, everything. Anger is emotion, sadness is emotion, crying is emotion, depression is emotion, jealousy is an emotion. Emotion has many different forms. An earthquake is emotion. And today, on the full moon, even all the animals are in emotion. Can you imagine how beautiful? Oh, all the mountains are full of snow, white. On the trees, there are no leaves, but snow is hanging. Nothing to see, all is white. Silver light from the moon, and the lonely wolf looking to the moon. And what is the wolf doing? That's it. Are you a lonely wolf? No, that's it. When I was living in Austria, in Graz—a beautiful city—some devotees had two houses, and they gave me one house to live in. The wife of that man said to me, "Swāmījī, when the full moon is there, I have to lock my sleeping room." I said, "Why?" She said, "Because my husband is so violent, and in the night he's walking on the roof and taking a gun and shooting in the sky." So many people on the new moon day cannot sleep. Many go for a walk, as we all know. You would like to go walking. Many people have depression. Many can't sleep. Different emotional waves are inside. Again, the yogīs brought the system or techniques called satsaṅg and fasting. If you are fasting on the full moon, then this energy which flows from the moon to this planet, to this nature—there is no difference between you and the tree. You are a mobile tree, that's all, yes. Everything that happens in the tree happens in your body. Any change that takes place on this planet, you are a part of this planet. In every season, the blood changes, the tissues change. But here it is winter; in Australia it is summer. In summer, the blood has different qualities, and in winter it is different now. If you go to Australia, it will take you about 15 days again to change the cycle—what we call jet lag. What is jet lag? Jet lag is that biologically, in your body, the bioenergy has to change the vibration; the bioenergy has to change, even in each chakra. So they said, "Full moon day fasting means purification is there. Your body becomes receptive; you get more of this pure light." And after eating in the evening, you should have a satsaṅg to aid digestion again. For more daytime fasting, you may take a little liquid if needed. Many of you were fasting today, but tell me, how many biscuits, how many cakes did you consume today? A lot. I saw the baskets, the waste paper baskets, you know. That's it. So I said, well, okay, seriously, fasting means only water. Milk is not a liquid drink. Milk is considered a nourishment. If you don't give a small baby food, the baby will be very hungry, so milk is a nourishment. So he said, "Okay, I will fast, but I drink milk." Some people take almonds inside and ghee inside and drink one big glass of milk. And then, at noon: a glass of milk, and then one apple and one orange, then one coconut and one chai and one coffee. And what are you fasting? You are not fasting; you are more bombarding your intestines. So fasting means only liquid. But you should know your body. If you have diabetes or very low blood pressure, then of course it's not good for fasting. It is again individual. Yoga is individual, not general. If you just imitate that you practice yoga, then your body will cease and illnesses will come out. Every individual has different exercises, and that's what Yoga in Daily Life is offering. Like in Āyurveda, every individual has a different diet: Vāta, Pitta, Kapha. According to this and the nature of the person, if you eat accordingly, it will be good. But we are the slave of our tongue. "I like this, too. I don't like this, too." That's all, like and dislike again. So, on the full moon day again, the saints or the yogīs tell us to make satsaṅg, which means seeing the glory of God. What does it mean? The energy which you can't digest, the energy which you can't keep in your body, the energy which you can't regulate in the body—you direct it through the channel of spirituality, the love to your beloved, God. So when you sing the bhajan, you are spiritual. Centers are awakening, and where you sing the bhajan, there is no alcohol, there is no meat. Maybe there is only some sweet, no meat, only sweet or tea, that's all. If you don't go to the satsaṅg and you go to the kuṣaṅga, and you consume alcohol or some other drugs, then your chakras begin to turn in the other direction, and the energy which awakens in the body, you will not be able to master that energy. And that's why, especially on the full moon day, you should have a satsaṅg and sing the bhajan, direct your feelings to Mahāprabhujī, and feel, say to yourself with surrendering: "Gurudev, śaraṇ tumhārī, cintā merī miṭāde.... Karke dayā dayālu bedā tū pār lagāde... Gurudev śaraṇ tumārī." This bhajan is from Śrī Maṅgīlāl jī, Mahāprabhujī's disciple. In such a way, when you chant and you know the meanings, and when you sing, without your trying, automatically the channel is connected to Mahāprabhujī, to Gurudev. Like you dial the number, that's all, press the button, automatically it will be connected to that number. Where you dialed our number is Mahāprabhujī, the Gurudev. Therefore, today is this Pūrṇimā, and especially this Pūrṇimā—now Poṣa Pūrṇimā—and now the Māgha month begins. So today you should meditate, chant bhajan, sing bhajan. Sleeping many, many lives we sleep. This jīva is sleeping, the yogī said. Nindra ush ghar jaye, jis ghar Hari bhakti nai hoi. Oh, my sleep, go there where there is no devotion to God. Two persons are awakened: the yogī or the rogī. Who is sleeping? The bhogī. So, the yogī, the rogī is an ill person, and the bhogī is one who is lost in the māyā, in kushaṅga. When an ill person is lying in the hospital and has an immense amount of pain, they can't sleep and are waiting for when morning will come, for a doctor to come, you know? Thanks to God, we have no pain. No pain is unbearable. Pain is the disharmony in the body, but we can't escape the dharma of this body: to be born, to grow, and to see death. Thus, there must be some cause, some reason that the body will die, either by accident suddenly, like a heart attack or something, or slowly, slowly. But we wish we live long, and as long as we are, let it be in divine consciousness. Practice. Nothing will go with us. Nothing that we think is mine will go with us. It doesn't matter how much you take care of it; one day you will go. When you were born, your fist was closed. It took them time to open your fist and make a massage, you know. But when you die, you have to open your hands. You can take nothing with you. Only what will go with us: our prayers, our mantras. And it is our sādhanās which will lead us to the divinity. Therefore, the aim of human life is to get Ātma-jñāna, that's all. All the rest is okay, but the main thing is ātmajñāna, and there you have to give motivation to yourself; it doesn't matter what. I saw many yogīs and many saints, and many, of course, are very good. But the discipline like Holy Gurujī—even when he had some physical problem, his mālā was constantly moving with mantra, with Mahāprabhujī's name. Constantly. That's it. So how many mālās do you make compared with Gurujī? It's very little. And it is said it doesn't cost you any money. It doesn't cost anything. Free. Take it. But you don't want to take it. It's free. Liberation is free, Brahma Gyāna is free, devotion is free—take it. But this you don't want. That's it. So, Pūrṇimā, which has a special constellation, a special reflection of energy on our planet as well as on the other planets, and so on our chakras, on our consciousness, on our mind, on our senses, and on our emotions.